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 - Translated from Spanish by Argos -

#Runes, #Inscriptions, #NFT, #Ordinals, #Tokens, etc..., 

I'm not very clear that it's all these things, basically because I'm not interested. I should probably report before I speak, but life doesn't give for everything.

I'm interested in #bitcoin because it solves several problems that humanity has. To limit growth, to have a hard money (which is what makes it possible), to have a decentralized money (because it's the only way that in the long term it remains hard and that it can avoid censorship, by removing these powers to banks and governments). For all these and some things we need bitcoin.

No, we need bitcoin to certify the ownership of some JPEGs, or introduce sats into the numismatics, or... .

NOBODY!, jeopardizes the certification of the possession of an art work, or...

I'm sure if NTF holders need a work-test network to certify their possessions, many geamers and other graphic card users, they'd be willing to take out a money by providing them with the computing capacity to secure that network. I'm sure they'd find it cheaper and with enough network security.

It seems that in the bitcoin chain there is already some child pornography. Having that is stupid. It doesn't help a coin or value deposito like bitcoin. And it gives an excuse to the "forces of order" to knock down doors, to confiscate nodes and stop bitcoiners for possession and distribution of child pornography.

Miners should process transactions based on their commission, time of arrival at mempool and alphabetical order, if this is possible. NO, for the value a supposed ordinal or NTF entrusted to the sats involved in the agreed transaction outside the chain.

Even so, child pornography as bad as it is, "AN EVIL ALREADY DONE". What would happen if instead of pornography, what they put into the chain, were the instructions for the development of weapons of mass destruction?, allowing "A FUTURE EVIL", wouldn't the "forces of order" more legitimized or forced to throw doors, confiscate nodes and stop bitcoiners?

It speaks a lot of what is allowed and is not allowed to do in Bitcoin's network, and if anything allows the code, but you filter it in your node, it's CENSORSHIP. I think bitcoin censorship is to censor the exchange of sats according to the addresses, not according to the annexed information they can carry. Just censor free transactions of any aditement, naked bitcoin, would be censorship. Filtering transactions for their "colors" is just voting for what bitcoin you want. It would be like voting with my node, but without a hard fork.

Everything that exceeds a hash, which certifies the validity of data external to the chain, should be able to rot.

I don't know bitcoin at a technical level to know what possibilities it offers to enter information in its different fields. But I believe that any technical possibility of filtering everything that does not resemble a HASH should be implemented.

Certain miners for greater short-term profit can contribute to the destruction of bitcoin.

We want bitcoin to be ethereum, solana or anything else?, don't we?, because we keep it as simple and constrained as possible to perform the function of money and reserve value, eliminating, to the extent possible, or as soon as possible, everything that separates it from that objective.

Non-monetary or value reserve uses of gold, industrial or jewelry value distort their valuation. Making it a worse money. The same occurs with bitcoin if used for other purposes.

Bitcoin is based on incentives, but these incentives come from the code. So it would be better than the code removed everything that did not help Bitcoin to be a better means of payment and storage of value. Perhaps allowing external protocols to point to bitcoin through a hash is not so bad, even if they distort bitcoin valuation as a means of payment and storage of value. There are parts of the code that allow "good things", such as being more flexible in their use through multifirms or having more privacy through mixtures. But what do the urinals, NFTs, Runas, etc...?

Anyone who has seen the documentary "Money Masters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTMZBgYKuE or "Inside Job" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk ,  https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWTHjImKsbc , will know why Bitcoin is necessary.

"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", Satoshi Nakamoto.

We've found a chance to fix the world by fixing the money, DON'T LET IT GO!